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Originally Posted by roachboy
scout: your entire post presupposes that the current "strategy" in iraq is rational--when it isn't--and necessary, simply because it exists.
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I caught a Daily Show the other day with Fareed Zakaria (I like him) he and Jon were discussing the current global situation and the US' role in it. I think Fareed was plugging a book about world growth and it's effect on the US. Basically he said the US used to be #1 in many areas- manufacturing, education etc... And now we're really only #1 when it comes to military capabilities. Not the largest military that, by far, is China. Fareed then quoted one of my favorite Mark Twain quotes "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
The current "strategy" isn't working. Oh, I know they keep telling us what a success the "surge" is and was. But there's no way to sustain it and I question just how well it really is working. For some reason I don't completely trust this Admin. or what it says. To me the "surge" is nothing more then playing whack a mole with more people. We can't keep this up. Unless we start drafting people we're going to run out of troops. Or the troops currently serving will be spending more and more time "in country."
IMO, we need to stop looking at every problem as a nail.